and sung altogether. 
Three male bronzed grackles flew over singing. 
The rusty blackbirds flew over to where the 
wheat was• They were all males. The plumage was 
a uniform glossy black. Iris white, i'he iris 
would be noticed when the bird is flying. Three 
were sitting on a fence, one after another. They 
fluffed out their feathers, opened their wings, 
and bowed forward so far that they nearly lost 
their balance, giving at the same time a song 
bub lo um tsee. It was exactly like a cowbird. 
The phoebe lit in a tuft of grass once. 
Heard a mourning dove coo. 
V/ent into Eoherjty’s barn to watch some 
bronzed grackles that v/ere below a window. They 
walked around picking over sticks and things for 
worms. l'hey chased the robins out of the way. 
They walked fast. They were males and had a 
yellow iris. One of them stopped and looked all 
around. Then he fluffed out all his feathers and 
spread his wings and tail and gave an indrawn 
song like tsee-la-her . Then he laid his feathers 
close to his body and went on. They moved their 
and bobbed while walking. 
Two juncos were out there. They would jump 
foward and then back, raking out seeds. The last 
time with their claws which they dragged. They 
hop. 
Saw 1 redpoll. The female* busty, is slate 
color and is darker above. Then 1 went home. 
Went down again at noon. I had started 
through the fence when I saw a pair of killdeer 
below by the pond. Whenever I moved on gave a 
warning tweep tweep. They hunted around and 
picked things out.the water, finally one flew with 
decurved wings like a sandpiper over the faice to 
another pool. A bronzed grackle was hunting in 
the grass by the further fence. It flew up once 
in a while and gave an alarm note like chtlck 
twitching its tail and bobbing its head. 
Then I went home. 
